NewEnd

Do you remember BlanketNo4? I did it 9 years ago!!! Can you believe how the time runs?! BlanketNo4 is still here. Injured and fixed. Someone (dear Pii) ate (accidentally) a piece of it when chewing a bone meanwhile laying on the blanket. 

At the end everything ends up to animals when old and used enough. BlanketNo4 ended up to dogs privilege to use because in cold season when having my nap I allow them on sofa with me to warm me up. I always used BlanketNo4. So, the dogs learnt it is ok to lay on it. So, they sometimes lay on it without me. And that lead to the accident and moment I noticed there was a hole in the blanket.

No panic. Almost everything can be fixed. And well planned is half done. So, after planning it well and thinking a lot I took my scissors and cut off approx 35 cm from the end of the blanket where the hole located. Then I gently unpick the last 1-2 rows of crochet stitches and used a big plastic tapestry needle to take a thread through the remain and opening stitches to catch them.

Then I used white Novita's 7 veljestä yarn (75 % wool, 25% polyamide) (100g = 200m) to crochet the new end for the blanket. The original yarn is Sirdar's Babouska yarn. (52% wool, 39% acrylic, 9% nylon) (50g=115m) and after 9 years we still have the blanket also in human use. The Babouska yarn seems to be a real bargain.

Babouska LegWarmers

For BlanketNo4 I used Sirdar's Babouska yarn (52% wool, 39% acrylic, 9% nylon) (50g=115m). From the left over yarn I already knit BabouskaSocks. And now I knit LegWarmers and used rest of the yarn. I do have liked this Babouska yarn. It is so warm, soft and fluffy.

To make them look even more fluffy I gently brushed LegWarmers by brand new nail brush. I do know they sell mohair brushes but they are so expensive in MyWorld. So just to be curious I decided to try out normal nail brush; bought only for my craft use of course. I can tell it worked out very well.

No, these are not mine despite they fit well with MyBlanket. They are for DearR. who definitely is a red person and sparkles in all the colors. This is part of the craft challenge I am in. I am happy to tell first part Done&Delivered in the challenge.

BabouskaSocks

Now I finished the woollen socks I just started.

I used Novita's beige shade Nalle yarn (100g = 260m) (75% wool, 25% polyamide) for the foot part. This yarn was left over from the project BlanketNo2. The fluffy yarn is Sirdar's Babouska (52% wool, 39% acrylic, 9% nylon) (50g=115m) and left over from the project BlanketNo4.

Special gift for my mother-in-law on her comming birthday.

My own design.

Exciting moments

Do you remember BlanketNo4?

I used Sirdar's Babouska yarn (52% wool, 39% acrylic, 9% nylon) (50g=115m) for it. Something was left over too. Now I picked up these shades of it; white, beige and grey and made again one more my own design.

I had very exciting moments in knitting. Would it all be enough?

I knit them at the same time to avoid disaster.

And yes, it was enough! This is what was left over! Not much at all. These are going to be woollen socks. Because Babouska's twist is not strong enough I will use another yarn for the foot part of the socks. Later on you'll see the result. :)

BlanketNo4

 Do you remember how it all started?

On the moment when we had just Blinks of the Sun and Roars of the Coastal Wind over arctic.

My own design.

BlanketNo4.

Tuulen Polku.

Path of the Wind.

It all was like climbing the stairs.

A journey.

I used Sirdar's Babouska yarn. (52% wool, 39% acrylic, 9% nylon) (50g=115m) I found it from the sale basket at our local yarn shop Pieni lankapuoti. Just 1€ per ball. Finished blanket weights almost exactly 1kg so the yarns costed just 10€. But all the time spent with it takes almost exactly 50 hours...

Spring and BlanketNo4

I was afraid of it all would look far too Christmas-like but no, not at all. And you can use different shades in decoration when you want to lift up some shade of it. The six shades I used are red, red wine, white, green, grey and beige. Quite untypical for me but later later on you'll see how this decoration project goes slowly on; later on the summer perhaps.

HalfWay

Here we are, 

at the halfway 

with the BlanketNo4

Tuulen Polku

(Path of the Wind)

And for sure She knows that is not allowed.

Not at all!

Still she finds her way on it

where ever when ever

I forget to collect it all away.

Stripes & grouses

Four more stripes for the BlanketNo4.

Two willow grouses for the OnTrack cross stitch project.

My own design.

Stitching & crocheting

Yes, I have been stitching again and working with this On Track project.

And yes, I have been crocheting too; BlanketNo4.

About 1/3 finished....

My own design.

Windy Days

This BlanketNo4 begins to get a bit bigger so it warms me up when crocheting it.

For few days it has been stormy.

I have been busy like the wind.

But still I had time to make few more rows.

I really like this Sirdars's Babouska yarn. 

I can not be thinking how it might look as knitted. 

Very fluffy, I bet.

It is going to be long, full size blanket.

Here it is where I stand with it at this very moment.

My own design.

Path of the Wind

Perhaps you have seen this picture on my blog before...

It is up to Sirdar's Babouska yarn.
(52% wool, 39% acrylic, 9% nylon)
(50g=115m)

 I made the map of the shades and stripes to see
how I want it all to be.

Here it is.

TuulenPolku

Path of the Wind

BlanketNo4 design

My own design

And this is how it goes.